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Broadwater County coroner presents sheriff's office budget and mill-levy impact
Summary
Nick Rausser, Broadwater Countye2s elected coroner, presented a sheriff's office budget overview at a public meeting and described how a proposed mill levy supports dispatch, detention, deputies and coroner services. He outlined recent service volumes, staffing and costs, and scheduled additional public presentations.
Nick Rausser, the elected coroner, told a small public meeting in Townsend that Broadwater County's sheriff's office relies on a mill levy to fund dispatch, deputies, the detention center and coroner services and urged residents to review a fact sheet and videos the office is sharing.
Rausser said the sheriff's office answered 17,357 calls for service last year and described rising case numbers and the cost of holding inmates in-county versus paying other counties to house them. He also walked the audience through the sheriff's offices personnel and operating budgets, recent incident videos, K-9 deployments and the county coroner's workload.
The presentation was billed as an informational overview ahead of a mill-levy question. Rausser said the current mill levy request could reach as high as 39.93 mills but that he planned to reduce the requested milling by 20% next year and explained what the levy would pay for if approved.
Rausser gave several data points about the offices workload and budget. He said calls for service totaled 17,357 last year and…
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